The following guide highlights the key benefits of using a BVI
corporate structure.
Companies incorporated in the BVI are, by most measures, the
most popular offshore holding structure in the world. While
offshore vehicles are used for a wide variety of different purposes
globally, there are a number of common factors which feed into the
success of the BVI product. Although the most popular BVI vehicles
are companies, BVI trusts and partnerships are also increasing in
popularity.
Many of the BVI's advantages are common to numerous other
jurisdictions (English language, absence of currency exchange
controls, US dollar as a currency, stable democracy, common law
legal system with final appeal to the Privy Council in London), a
number of other advantages are not.